I think the difference in your XFN example and in the hCard example is that you are making the VALUES invisible. I know i'm guilty of this, but when your data is out-of-site, it is out-of-mind. Things have a better change of drifting away if you are not staring them in the face each day.
If i have a falling out with someone and want to remove them as a 'friend', with the XFN example their name is VISUALLY on my page, with hidden data that i do not see each day, i am more apt to forget about it. The VISIBLE data we are refering to are the VALUES.(i'll probably catch some heat for that last comment, so i'll mention that i am fully aware that our ABBR encoding sort of contradicts what i just said, but it is a representation of the Value, so it is still visible) In the XFN example that would be "Mr Bloggs" -brian On 11/19/05, Andy Hume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > >>> As said before, microformats encourage the use of *visible data*, > >>> not > >>> invisible (meta)data, and thus microformats agrees with the > >>> position that > >>> you should NOT use CSS to hide microformatted content. > >> > >> This is a concept I hadn't heard voiced before, and I guess I agree > >> in principle. > > > > Yes, this is a *very* important aspect of microformats. > > > >> However, microformats could be powerful tool for marking up invisible > >> meta data. > > > > The problem is that invisible metadata is nearly worthless. > > It's not quite as simple as that, surely? Invisible metadata > shouldn't be worthless, although I do understand the arguments > against hiding it. > > <a href="http://myfriend.com"; rel="friend met colleague">Mr Bloggs</a> > > These XFN values are essentially invisible to humans when rendered by > a browser. Explain how this is different to hiding something with CSS. > > Apologies if I'm going over old ground here. > > > See previous > > writings on this re: meta keywords etc. > > Very interesting, and I understand the parallels with meta keyword > values, etc. I *have* taken this on board, however my question above > still stands. > > Cheers, > > Andy. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > microformats-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
